Record Number: 17005

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles Dickens. Our manager, who was a reading man, was subscribing to periodically issued numbers of the "Pickwick Papers". He had seen me in the breakfast hour poring over the contents of a dirty rag paper, - not that the matter was dirty, - but the paper itself was oiled, and worn from its being constantly carried about in my pocket. This was "Cleave's Gazette", published weekly at a penny, a sum I managed to screw out of my threepence a fortnight "old brass".'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

Time

morning: in the breakfast hour

Place:

Hollinwood
other location: at work

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Benjamin Brierley

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

26 Jun 1825

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

a 'piecer' in a cotton mill, later hand-loom weaver and then writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

[John] [Cleave]

Title:

Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette

Genre:

Politics, Law, Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17005

Source:

Print

Author:

Benjamin Brierley

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Home Memories

Place of Publication:

Bramhall

Date of Publication:

2002 (1886)

Vol:

n/a

Page:

21

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Benjamin Brierley, Home Memories, (Bramhall, 2002 (1886)), p. 21, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17005, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None